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Medellin security secretary arrested on organized crime charges
written by Adriaan Alsema July 4, 2017
Medellin‘s security secretary was arrested on Tuesday on charges of having ties to drug trafficking groups in the latest of a series of arrests of allegedly corrupt top officials in Colombia.
The arrest of Gustavo Villegas came a week after the arrest of the anti-corruption chief and amid a wave of arrests of government officials accused of having ties to drug trafficking groups.
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The mayor with no clothes on
The arrest is a major embarrassment for Mayor Federico Gutierrez, who personally appointed Villegas earlier this year in spite of long-existing allegations the dynasty politician had ties to “Don Mario,” the imprisoned founder of paramilitary group Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), and previously to the now-defunct paramilitary umbrella organization AUC.
According to Medellin’s chief prosecutor Claudia Carrasquilla, the local dynasty politician and, according to local newspaper El Colombiano the mayor’s right-hand man, “protected ringleaders of criminal organizations” without giving further details about which organizations.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/medellin-security-secretary-arrested-organized-crime-charges/
